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The School's faculty, staff, and students engage in research for the discovery and dissemination of knowledge for the stewardship of natural and managed environments and the sustainable use of their products and services.

We propose using future vascular plant abundances as indicators of future climate in a way analogous to the reconstruction of past environments by many palaeoecologists. To begin monitoring future short-term climate changes ...

A greenhouse study of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) seedlings tested the hypothesis that the successional role of a population, because of its influence on selection, partly determines autecological ...

Over 100 bioswales have been constructed in King County over the past ten years to treat runoff associated with residential, commercial and light industrial development. Water level fluctuation, long-term inundation, erosive ...

For decades, watershed urbanization has been known to have severe consequences on aquatic
systems. Although the problem has been long articulated, solutions have proven elusive because of
the complexity of the problem, ...

Our goal in this project has been to develop a robust approach to urban stream rehabilitation,
using examples from the Puget Lowland region of western Washington, that blends knowledge
from the physical, biological, and ...

Twenty years of research have demonstrated that the water quality of stormwater runoff can
improve after flowing in a well-vegetated channel, relatively slowly, at a depth below the
vegetation height. These channels are ...

This paper provides a review of "ultra-urban" stormwater
treatment technologies. "Ultra-urban" technologies are designed to remove pollutants
from wet weather runoff in highly developed areas where land values are high ...

Because of the profound effect of urban development on aquatic systems,
characterizing the land cover of a region is critical for a variety of resource management
applications. In the Pacific Northwest, this characterization ...

Center for Water & Watershed Studies(University of Washington Water Center, 2003)

Articles include: King of Fish: the Thousand-Year Run of Salmon; Thesis and dissertation abstracts for: Characterizing Lowland Streams, Large Woody Debris in Natural Systems, Impacts of Road Crossings on Creeks, ...

Center for Urban Water Resources Management(University of Washington Water Center, 1997)

Articles include: Assessment of Cumulative Effects of Urbanization on Small Streams in the Puget Sound Lowland Ecoregion; Hydrologic Simulation of the Klahanie Catchment, King County, Washington, With and Without a Landscape ...